That Was A Wet One!

Toronto got swamped Monday night with the most rain.

Ever.

Sure, it was no Calgary.  But we got pretty darn wet just the same.

The first picture is a commuter train coming down - well trying to come down - the Don River valley.

It always gets flooded.

The second picture is the Don Valley Parkway.
 
It always gets flooded.

This picture is some street.

It never gets flooded.

Even though it was a record rainfall for a 24 hour period, the part that caused the problems was that we got most of it in about four hours.

Virtually all major roadways in and out of the city were flooded.

Here the fences are up for this weekend's Honda Indy on Lakeshore Bvld.

Huge sections of the city were without power.  With some just getting power back this morning.

A great picture that made it to various newspapers - and Twitter - was an abandoned $200,000 Maserati.

The owner was tracked down and turned out to be a lawyer. "No biggie - I have several of them.".....he might have said.

In his defence, I'd seen other pictures where the water was actually up to the windows.

He left it because he had an important meeting to get to.  Can't keep those billable hours waiting!

Some people had to spend the night on various GO Trains (commuter trains).

Some did get out.

Some tried to get out.

And then thought better of it.

Some weren't sure what to think.

"Found it!"

For others, everything worked out alright in the end.

For now. 

Because we're supposed to get more today.   Whoo boy.....